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Definition of Corporeal
1. Adjective. Having material or physical form or substance. "That which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible"
Attributes: Corporality, Corporeality, Materiality, Physicalness
Also: Bodied
Similar to: Bodily, Bodied, Corporal, Corporate, Embodied, Incarnate, Reincarnate
Derivative terms: Corporeality, Materiality
Antonyms: Incorporeal
2. Adjective. Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit. "A somatic symptom or somatic illness"
Definition of Corporeal
1. a. Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.
Definition of Corporeal
1. Adjective. material; tangible; physical ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the body; bodily. ¹
3. Adjective. (archaic) Corporal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corporeal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Corporeal
1. Pertaining to the body, or to a corpus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corporeal
Literary usage of Corporeal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Classical Psychologists: Selections Illustrating Psychology from by Benjamin Rand (1912)
"But this spirit which is generated with [the body] is the soul: it follows, then,
that the soul is a corporeal substance. Cleanthes,'too, will have it that ..."
2. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"In this treatise, being blinded by corporeal images, he failed to discern the
spiritual nature of God. BUT I saw not yet, the hinge on which this great ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Hereditaments: corporeal and incorporeal.—But an hereditament, says Sir Edward
... corporeal consist of such as affect the senses; such as may be seen and ..."
4. Essays on Physiognomy by Johann Caspar Lavater, Thomas Holcroft (1878)
"ON THE HARMONY BETWEEN MORAL AND corporeal BEAUTY IT has been asked, is there
any visible, demonstrable, harmony and coincidence, between moral and ..."
5. Elementary Law by William Callyhan Robinson (1910)
"corporeal real property is physical and tangible, can be visibly occupied and
enjoyed by its owner, and can be transferred by delivery from one person to ..."
6. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"Incorporeal is always used in regard to living things, particularly by way of
comparison, with corporeal or human beings : hence we speak of ..."
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